A month after the Grateful Dead's summer 1995 tour concluded, Garcia died at a rehabilitation facility in August 1995. "Jerry and I had a fortunate relationship. He was sad. The dealers were out there spreading bad, bad shit, telling them it was LSD, and it would be some nasty tranq from the nuthouse.". The first time Mountain Girl climbed onto the mythic bus, she was 18. she says with a big bright grin. Ingram, Erik. Both felt the $5 million figure was fair, she said. "She is the real deal.". I was not seeking the spotlight. It's a bright, crisp morning on a leafy street in Eugene, Oregon. "I cry when I see the bus now, are you kidding?" The engine had been cannibalized for parts for Furthur II, the "new bus" that Kesey was taking on what fellow Prankster Kenneth Babbs was calling the Grand Furthur Tour to the Rock and Roll Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. And her first with a chauvinistic rock 'n' roll culture that relegated the band's "old ladies" to caretaker status. "Ken was upset that I hooked up with Jerry," she says. KLCC General Manager, News Director and other KLCC Staff met with Springfield listeners and dignitaries.KLCC Staff on their way to Newport!Destination #2: NewportWhen: Friday, 4/21/17, 4-6 pmWhere: Newport Performing Arts CenterWhat: KLCC Staff will meet with area listeners to learn more about the Newport community. He was 53. Thats also important. [3] She got a job at Stanford University, working for Carl Djerassi in the organic chemistry lab analyzing psychiatric drugs, and she was eventually fired for "dipping into the experimental psychedelic chemicals she was analyzing. With Sunshine slung to her hip, Mountain Girl fell into communal living again. She reconnected with Garcia a couple years later after leaving Kesey in Mexico, where he was hiding out to avoid U.S. drug charges, and returning to San Francisco with her daughter Sunshine.. View All Result . She was living near Stanford, hired by then-department head Carl Djerassi to work the night shift at the mass spectrometer in the university's organic chemistry lab. She has won awards from Oregon Associated Press, PRNDI, and Education Writers Association. Sunshine Kesey is one of renown author and merry maker, Ken Kesey's, children. I don't know if she was threatened by me. We tried to keep the mess to a minimum. While living together over the next decade, they raised Sunshine along with their two daughters. In the course of a few months, some 100,000 young people from all over the world descended on Haight-Ashbury to get high and make love and protest the war. In Carolyn Adams, the Pranksters instantly recognized one of their own. In my case, with a powerful talent like Jerry and this tremendous culture-changing thing he'd found to do, it was a tough place to try to carry on a relationship. A framed photo of Kesey juggling apples hangs on a bright red wall. It was difficult, but it was worth it," says Carolyn Garcia. But at the same time, there was a slightly Victorian tinge to the whole thing. She'd hitched a ride out west with her older brother, Don, determined to leave square old Poughkeepsie far in the rearview. Same with Jerry's two daughters too (I suppose Sunshine Kesey for that matter too), I'm so interested in learning what it was like having to essentially share their dad with the rest of the world. Art Frisch/The San Francisco Chronicle/Getty Images, Bill Owens/20th Century Fox/Hulton Archive/Getty Images. She was very bright, very fast. "That left a giant hole in his personality he was constantly trying to fill," she says. The riotous paint job was murky and peeling, as if the bus had leprosy. The Days Between is obviously based off a song, and the fans took it over after Jerry died. She quit LSD, but she fell into a postpartum depression as her reality came into focus. "I haven't had another relationship really since then. "I was totally devastated," she says. "I got comfortable, as much as possible, on the overloaded bus bunk with my very few possessions," she writes. They didn't have kids and it looked like they were having some fun. The tiny kitchen downstairs was the crossroads, we jammed in there for morning cornflakes and conversation. "And I was like, 'Oh, my God!' I was hallucinating. At home in Oregon, where she's down to shrooming twice a year. "It seemed the only safe place," she recalls. "I didn't know what to do. Getting into the cannabis industry was something I was determined to do. I appreciate whats going on with the Alex Grey scene and these shamanistic visionary artists. The future Mrs. Garcia was taking guitar lessons at Dana Morgan's Music Store in Stanford, California, when she heard Jerry's voice coming from the next room. Two years later, she got the dreaded call: Garcia had died of a heart attack at a drug-treatment facility. Carolyn Adams is very proud of her family history. Dawn was breaking as they arrived at a ranch in La Honda. "Because Mountain Girl went through this movement once before," says Rachel Anderson, the group's cofounder, "she's seen what worked and what didn't work.". I should also point out that Im a huge cannabis fan. She'd fled her hometown of Poughkeepsie, New York, to become the unlikely teenage matriarch for the counterculture's most celebrated influencers, the Merry Pranksters. He could see the musical notes, he told her. And Mountain Girl wasn't sure how she felt about it. "She's imposing all right," says David Gans, the proto-Deadhead historian who hosts "Dead to the World" on KPFA-FM radio. "She came and stayed with me," says Goldie Rush, who was living in Greenbrae at the time, right behind the hospital. The Pranksters were gassing up the bus to head to Mexico. With steely determination, she continued her way across a wide expanse of unmown grass with Kesey's black spaniel Happy yapping at her heels. Palo Alto in the early 1960s was a dynamic crucible of the radical changes to come. It's sad to see it crumble away. I would question every single thing. I want to be a pioneer!" another Prankster, Mike Hagen, asked her. After moving in with Jerry, the teenage matriarch of the Pranksters became the "den mother," as she puts it, of the Grateful Dead: cooking, cleaning, rustling them out the door on time. She saw Joan Baez at Kepler's, a local bookstore, and started taking guitar lessons at Dana Morgan's Music Store. But Carolyn Garcia says, "nobody seemed to notice me for a second." A 6-CD box set featuring two complete, previously unreleased performances from the Jerry Garcia Band and Bob Weir & Rob Wasserman recorded September 5th, 1989 in Hartford, CT and September 6th, 1989 in Uniondale, NY. At the police station, speaking with a reporter, Kesey suggested that he was being persecuted for his role in the counterculture. Theyre super high-end, creative, productive business people. "I began to realize the dangers of celebrity that had to do with the Grateful Dead attracting a lot of people to themselves who were unconventional. I also enjoy smoking weed around people who I dig. The mythology of the time, and the dynamic young woman at the heart of it, was written mostly by men Wolfe, Kesey, Allen Ginsberg, Hunter S. Thompson, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady all of whom. The city recently commissioned a two-story, photo-realistic mural to honor their, This Halloween marks an auspicious occasion: the 50th anniversary of the Acid Test Graduation. "I felt bad when it was taken down into the woods and abandoned. It had been only two years since she'd met Kesey and taken up with the Pranksters, but it felt like a lifetime. The loss of his father was absolutely devastating for him as a little boy. By then, things at their Stinson Beach aerie, Sans Souci, on a ridge high above the beach, had gotten pretty weird. It was such a special thing," she says. The fairy tale soured. "I had been taking birth-control pills, but then I ran out, and we were up there on the mountain, you know what I mean? That was sort of my style, to ask the really tough questions right away.". Led by Ken Kesey, the swashbuckling author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," the communal crew of seekers and misfits road-tripped the USA in Furthur, experimenting with the sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll that would come to define their generation. "They were talking about chord progressions and all this interesting stuff.". Adams soon lost her apartment and boyfriend as well. We partnered with Keen to do a line of shoes, and they have been supporting HeadCount through the Vote Love campaign, which is a get-out-the-vote campaign that were also working on. Sunshine Kesey, Self: Move Me Brightly: Celebrating Jerry Garcia's 70th Birthday. Nobody can measure up. I got a huge jolt, and I had a very vivid image of us being together. The band, which was making waves in the Haight but hadn't yet recorded an album, shared a rambling Victorian on 710 Ashbury Street in San Francisco. It was really hard and frightening for her. She quickly joined the inner circle of Pranksters and became romantically involved with Kesey, having a daughter together named Sunshine. "He went with it," she says, "and made sure that I had a place to sleep and food to eat. The. GarciaLive Volume 17 showcases highlights from three stand-out shows captured in the Jerry Garcia Band's native Northern California. And more and more people were getting admitted to the hospital from bad drug reactions. Not even the Sixties. Or, as Kesey told Tom Wolfe: "Either you are on the bus or off the bus." The wind blew the cottony clouds around in a brisk Oregon morning and Mountain Girl, oh-so-daintily for her bulk, padded across a slippery board laid to traverse a narrow creek. "I was a total tomboy. When she stepped off the bus in October 1966 with her daughter, Sunshine, she recognized a familiar face. For Carolyn Adams, encountering Kesey and the Pranksters was like coming home, as if she'd been looking for people like them all of her life. Kesey wasn't dead. I mean, yuck! Ken Kesey's ranch in La Honda, California, where Mountain Girl joined the Pranksters. by Petrus A. Jerry, I think, fits the Alfred picture as a kind of verbally interesting person, rather than the swashbuckler Kesey was. For MG, which is how her intimates shorten her name, the Pranksters were her college, the University of Fun. Carolyn Elizabeth Garcia (ne Adams; born May 7, 1946), also known as Mountain Girl, is an American Merry Prankster and the former wife of Jerry Garcia, the lead vocalist and guitar player with the American rock band, Grateful Dead . "His whole thing was to drive to San Francisco, play a gig, go home, go to sleep, get up, have breakfast, drive to San Francisco, play a gig. The seeds she'd helped sow were beginning to bloom. "I didn't want any whinging. All there was was Synanon, and I wasn't going to call them!" They traveled as a couple, for instance, when the Dead went off to Egypt to play at the Pyramids in 1978. ", Garcia knew that as Jerry's wife and mother of two of his children, she was entitled to half of his estate under California law. ", "She is an authentic personality," says Dennis McNally, former public relations manager for the Grateful Dead and now publicist for Grateful Dead Productions. Annabelle was in pre-school and Sunshine was in school. The mist was coming through the trees, and Adams made out a large vehicle in the distance, painted like a kaleidoscope. They were moving around, and I go, 'Oh, isn't that cute?'" Tom Wolfe's New York magazine pieces may have put her on the map, but she says, "I really didn't have an attachment to a personal image. Says Kesey: "There was never a question that she would not have the baby, gosh, no. ", Mountain Girl and Jerry divorced in 1993. It was like permission to make something new out of the old stuff, which the bus kind of represented. I couldn't understand why I was born a girl. Like any other rock and roller, Jerry Garcia was under tremendous pressure to fool around. The Oregon connection centered her and gave her the strength to go on. Trixie Garcia, her youngest, has come up from Oakland. "Marijuana is an ancient plant, cultivated for centuries all over the world for rope & papermaking, for its oil, resin, & seeds," she writes in her memoir. Trixie and her reclusive. She took them East. Written in red paint, the front bumper proclaimed "CAUTION WEIRD LOAD. Cassady had told Kesey that he met this girl who was a little wild, "like she was kind of a mountain girl," says Kesey. "She never defined it as shit. "I was taught every plant name as we passed it on a hike," she says. GarciaLive Volume 19: October 31st, 1992 Oakland Coliseum Arena showcases Garcia's return to the stage with the Jerry Garcia Band following a second major health crisis. I decided not to do much. "As the new attraction, I was getting a lot of interest from the unattached males," Adams recalls. In 2020, as a board member of the Edelic Center for Ethnobotanical Service, a nonprofit advocacy group, she helped legalize magic mushrooms for therapeutic use in Oregon. He had dumped all of his belongings in the Garcia driveway, including a box with a cat in it. It was like, Eww, thats folk art, what are you doing? But now theres a whole scene and a ton of people who are into it, and I think its beautiful. He could see the musical notes, he told her. However out of step she had felt among the kids back home, she now found her place among the generation's leading artists, writers, and radicals: Timothy Leary ("I thought he was kind of an actor he was busy playing a role"), Albert Hoffmann, the chemist who discovered LSD ("a saint and a mystic, and a gay man, just a sweetheart"), Hunter S. Thompson ("an important guy for the country"). She has a garden, a greenhouse with a new outdoor shower, a painting/writing studio guest house, a hot tub, an aging BMW convertible and a split-log conservatory Burwell built where she grows redwood trees. Mountain Girl, eight months pregnant, hitchhiked to get groceries. In her senior year of high school, she got expelled for sneaking into the boys locker room to see their new Nautilus machine. It kept him very up. And she wanted to help that greatness.". It's a familiar story from a revelatory point of view: her own. The fight over his intellectual and real property continues. To ensure that the baby, named Solano in Spanish (which, laughs Garcia, means "sun porch" ) would have legal U.S. citizenship, Mountain Girl married a pretty blond Prankster named George Walker. There are a lot of people like that. And they had the smallest room in the house at that point. The band is comprised of former members Bob Weir (guitar), Mickey Hart (drums) and Bill Kreutzmann (drums) and new additions John Mayer (guitar), Oteil Burbrdige (bass/drums) and Jeff Chimenti. It would prove to be a pivotal moment in the history of the counterculture. Then came the Summer of Love. Despite the new light in her life, a darkness set in. They ran a bar in San Francisco. Garcia and Adams separated in 1975 after he began a relationship with filmmaker Deborah Koons. "I could hear his voice and somebody else's voice," she tells me. Adams, who had been a bus monitor in elementary school, had a soft spot for the rides, especially a vintage 1939 International Harvester like this one. They had not lived together for years, although once in a while they got together with the children during a holiday or when the Dead were in town playing a concert. Everybody was attached to it.". I don't know.' Instead, he decided to hide it. In a loosely autobiographical screenplay he wrote called "Over the Border," he rhapsodizes about "her big brown eyes made even bigger by the electricity of the warm autumn night with the stars above and her man beside her. Special thanks to: Trixie Garcia, Annabelle Garcia, Tiff Garcia, Heather Katz, Sunshine Kesey, Carolyn Adams Garcia, Keelin Garcia, Manasha Garcia, Coran Capshaw, Jonathan Blaufarb and Vivek Sridharan at Councel, LLP, Elliot Groffman, Paul Gutman, Ira Friedman and Kelly Corson at Carroll, Guido and Groffman, LLP, Mark Pinkus, Nicholas Meriwether, Jeffrey Norman, David Lemieux, Steve Parish . The paint is faded. "I'm not weeping with remorse.". As far as I know, it went boom! His smile looms like a half moon that spins along with us through the trees. She sampled ibogaine, a powerful psychoactive being studied by the researchers she worked with. I think I did a pretty good job. Destination #1: SpringfieldWhen: Friday, 2/17/17Where: Washburne Caf, Springfield, ORWhat: KLCC Staff rolled into Springfield in their mobile studio to meet the public and learn more about the community. The concert had been meant to revive the spirit of a generation. I am just kind of there to encourage all this stuff to happen. This is a 3 CD set of music from the two October 28, 1987 shows, featuring the acoustic set from the matinee show and the acoustic and electric sets from the evening show. Were proud of them and we want to share the best of what California has to offer. All of Jerrys kids are artists in one way or another. [13] Garcia lives near her daughter, Annabelle Garcia, on the Kesey family farm southeast of Eugene, Oregon in Pleasant Hill.[1]. "Not just a little upset. But who is this woman who attracted Ken Kesey and Jerry Garcia, two of the most powerful influences on the popular culture in the past three decades? "After he had left and moved in with Deborah. Jerry Garcia exclaimed. "Garcia's Ex-Wife to Get $1.25 Million: 'Mountain Girl' had sued star's estate". Now, after keeping her writings in a box for years, she had decided to share her memoir with me. Caravans of Deadheads turned Jerry and Mountain Girl into godheads. "I love that bus! So we found some awesome partners. Her eyes well with tears. Happy the dog, her head splotched with a huge drop of blue paint, flushed a covey of peacocks which rose above the trees and the parked bus, scattering rainbow feathers and squawking bloody murder. Self-reliant as always, MG constructed her own little home in the woods: I had built a small shelter in a grove of trees by the creek. They separated in December 1966 and were divorced in 1978. Today, Carolyn Adams Walker Garcia is 51 years old. It sounds like all of these endeavors require a balance between your free-spirited nature and a need to focus on business matters. "I was sitting on the ground, and all of a sudden the redwood needles started to rearrange themselves. I think that its very important for her voice to be in the mix and very important that she is able to share how these different events unfoldedthe way she remembers them. mixer. The others quickly took note of this dynamic new girl in their midst. In exchange for the cash, she gave up claim to the fruits of his talent, his real estate holdings and any future earnings. It's still owned by Sunshine and the Kesey family. "My father was not a person who was ambitious in a materialistic way," says Carolyn's brother, Gordon Adams, 57, who runs a computer help line for architects and designers in Seattle. But from then on, Mountain Girl and Captain Trips were a pair. But, says Gordon "Dass" Adams, Carolyn Garcia's oldest brother, "Jerry was a lousy husband.". "The job was to run the mass spectrometer on the night shift," she writes in her memoir. ", "Jerry was extremely jealous," says Goldie Rush, who met the Garcias, as she puts it, "in a child care situation," and has continued to be a business manager and accountant for a number of people associated with the Dead's extended family. I used to do large paintings but storage got to be an issue. Mountain Girl and Garcia divorced in 1993. No matter how peeved you get with people, the bus always makes your heart jump. "I wanted to stay on the bus," she says. Initially. But being pregnant changed her outlook on life. Theres a high level of quality and integrity there, which is so important when we think about licensing something. A few of her friends acknowledge the incident as rumor but refuse to verify it as fact). 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I never socialized with the fan base or anything like that. Those two are the biggest people in every way - big souls, big hearts, big egos, big personalities. I was flabbergasted. MG, as her family and friends call her, is finally ready to be the author of her own story. The real story of Mountain Girl, as I've learned after months of talking to her, is far more complex. It takes a monumental person to be with them.". That was his happiest space. You could feel it. The free concert, scheduled for December 6, 1969, at the Altamont Speedway in Northern California, would include performances by the Dead, Santana, Jefferson Airplane, and the Rolling Stones. Sunshine Kesey and Annabel Garcia live nearby, not far from their mom. She wasn't a judgmental kind of person, she was just brutally frank. For the two of them, says Scully, "it was a great big love.". In those days, Mountain Girl was the brash, 19-year-old "it girl" of the nascent psychedelic underground. Then all of a sudden, the older guy's pulling these clippings out of his wallet and he's a Kerouac character. Any sign of a trap and I'm moving. My relationship with him had to do more with intellectual companionship rather than a physical relationship, which was really brief. None. We cleaned our grass in an old aluminum colander, and stored the kilo of Acapulco gold in a kitchen cupboard. I watched MG and Jerry connect. "Ooh, man," she told him, "there's something. The cleanliness of life which people around him discouraged pretty quickly. Garcia to Deborah Koons and Mountain Girl back to Oregon and the big, rugged logger she had met, Bill Burwell. at Red Rocks Garcia's 75th Bday. "I wasn't a hundred percent Ken's girlfriend," she says. Sunshine was about two or three months old and she was in this little basket. Ken (Kesey) could have made yard art out of it. [1] The family had a house in San Rafael, California, as well as a beach house in Stinson Beach, California.[7]. Mountain Girl, Sunshine Kesey, Trixie Garcia, and Annabelle Garcia #Garcia75th : Jay Blakesberg Photography Tracks Listen Buy How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) Stop That Train "I didn't want to compete for attention," admits Mountain Girl. Tracks Festival Fever K.C. One thing that I wanted to do was fight against the stereotypes of the longhaired stoner and the dirty hippie. My very best friend is a high-functioning lawyer whos also a pot smoker. "I slept with some of the other Pranksters from time to time." "There are things that can happen to people. "I was maintaining our home. Were real people. Sunshine Becker (born Sunshine Flower Garcia on July 1, 1972) is an American singer who performed backing vocals for the band Furthur. She opted out of the Grateful Dead scene for the sake of her three little girls, Sunshine Kesey, her daughter with Ken Kesey, and Annabelle and Theresa Garcia, her children with Jerry Garcia. I was floored. "Neal basically dropped me off like fresh meat," she recalls. But Jerry had up and died. But basically, she was assigned to the traditional women's stuff of keeping a home, albeit a very large and unruly one. ", "Jerry and MG were absolutely a blessing to hang out around," says McIntire. Until then, the strongest drug she'd ever had was coffee. "[1], In early 1964, she met Neal Cassady, who introduced her to Ken Kesey and his friends, one of whom gave her the name "Mountain Girl" because she was a "little bit wild. I think I went for a lot of stuff. In 1959, Kesey had been a volunteer in a C.I.A.-sponsored LSD experiment at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Menlo Park. It's so sad.". What is your perspective on how it has evolved? Bradley clutches my arm, massaging my knee and rubbing my ankle and chuckling to himself. "They were talking about chord progressions and all this interesting stuff.". Movies. Getting on it was a liberating feeling. Mountain Girl (Carolyn Elizabeth Garcia) with her three daughters, Sunshine Kesey,(daughter of Ken Kesey), Theresa Adams "Trixie" Garcia, Annabelle Walker Garcia. She was, she recalls, "a beatnik." Certainly, for my own peace of mind, I cant work with anyone who thinks my dad was a deity or something. he asked me. Their house was a living lab, a repository of bugs and plants. I went to the San Francisco Art Institute because my dad had a history there, and I was kind of looking for direction when I was younger. But I was a little envious of the glamour queens, you know. But I was anti-cocaine," she says pausing. In those early days, she didn't take special note of Garcia. I was into hip-hopI went out and forged my own life totally anonymously. "We didn't have the education that modern America has now to help us talk about our roles. At 710, Mountain Girl imposed order like a drill sergeant. Koons Garcia and Weir took a portion of Garcia's ashes to India two weeks ago and spread them . And frankly, I'm glad we didn't, because I think if we'd fought it out too much, we would have lost each other. The intellectual climate at Kesey's was free of academic constraints," remembers Carolyn Garcia. "Jerry decided to spend more time away from the house and in his studio. She was judge and jury in those days. Through her window she saw legions of young people with long hair and colorful pants, smoking, dancing, playing guitar. From her parents, young Carolyn inherited an adoration of nature. It's not a thing anybody owns or controls. Tiffany Eckert 12 of 15 The Simpsons family are from Springfield, Oregon Matt Groening 13 of 15 ", "Don't kid yourself," says Jon McIntire. "I couldn't freak freely and stay up all night and run up and down the ladders," she says. The City of Springfield is installing a two-story, photorealistic painted mural of Ken Kesey downtown on the side of the Odd Fellows Building, current, Renowned author and Merry Prankster Ken Kesey grew up in Springfield. But she's come out ahead of the game. I fear she did most of the adapting.". Adams was offered a job in the Stanford cafeteria, but drawing on her knowledge of science she hustled one in the organic-chemistry lab instead. A long, strange trip led Mountain Girl to Kesey's final home. And then this sort of unusual set of circumstances occurred whereby Jerry " Her conversation tails off into an uncomfortable silence. They wound up at Kesey's spread at 5 in the morning. Mountain Girl had already had one abortion, during which she vividly recalls tripping on ketamine, which was used as sedative. If Mountain Girl wanted to come, she better hitchhike down to LA fast, before they split. It can be nice, but I should also point out that it has definitely worked against some people. But now that she'd fallen in love with Garcia, Kesey seemed to realize what he'd lost. The tiny sink was a hazard zone. Like Mountain Girl, he was looking for family. "They were a couple. But God, if somebody didn't cook, do you know what they would eat? Sometimes the fanaticism is a little too extreme, and gets in the way. But after spending a night in jail, she soon had another reason to weep. Despite the free-love ethos of the Sixties, she could feel the tension her affair with Kesey generated in the group. But when the day arrived, the crowd of 300,000 grew increasingly unruly as the Hells Angels, who had been brought in to provide security, grew increasingly drunk. And her beauty. 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